GeForce GT 550M and HD Graphics 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GT 550M vs HD Graphics 500
GeForce GT 550M
590
HD Graphics 500
307
GeForce GT 550M
HD Graphics 500
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Gen. 9 Apollo Lake (2016−2017)
GPU code name
N12P-GT
Apollo Lake
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
September 2016
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x1
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
700 MHz
Core clock speed
740 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
284.16 gflops
144.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
12
Power consumption (TDP)
35 Watt
10 Watt
Texture fill rate
11.8 billion/sec
9.000
Memory type
DDR3
DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.97
Optimus
+
-
Quick Sync
-
+